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Centre hospitalier d'Armentières

bd_d75c0250d269d34a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 26, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blackout on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: HealthcareDiscovered: 2024-02-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

First post on our new blog ! We encrypted 100+ servers and workstations ...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 26, 2024

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
PressFeb 11 · first
Leak Site+15d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 11, last Feb 26 — a 15-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-02-26

blackout

According to ransomware.live, Blackout is a ransomware group that first appeared in early 2024, initially claiming attacks against healthcare entities in Canada, France, and Germany before expanding to telecommunications, mining, and manufacturing sectors, operating a double-extortion model with a data leak site.

12 victims claimed globally12 tracked hereFull profile →